According to the specialized portal Tengolf.es, LIV Golf is about to make an important signing official, one month before the opening of the 2025 season. It is the Northern Irishman Tom McKibbin, protg of a Rory McIlroy who is very critical of the circuit.
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Everything indicates that McKibbin will join Jon Rahm's Legion XIII team on a multi-year contract. The move comes just weeks after the 22-year-old obtained his PGA Tour card as one of the top 10 players without a card in the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai. McKibbin will replace the relegated Kieran Vincent to join Rahm's team along with Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and American Caleb Surratt.
A friend of McIlroy, McKibbin is currently ranked 110th in the Official World Golf Rankings. His most recent result was a T24 at the Alfred Dunhill Championship to close out 2024, but McKibbin finished T10 at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and T11 at the DP World Tour Championship. McKibbin has declined to discuss his potential signing with LIV Golf during this weeks Team Cup in Abu Dhabi.
Jon Rahm Rodrguez (born November 10, 1994 in Barrika) is a Spanish golfer.
Already ranked number 1 in the amateur golf world for a record 60 weeks, he reached the top of the official ranking after winning the Memorial Tournament in July 2020, returning to the highest position after winning the U.S. Open in June 2021: he was the first Spaniard to triumph in the prestigious tournament.
He attended Arizona State University and won 11 tournaments in the university field, second only to Phil Mickelson who won 16 titles. In 2015 he participated as an amateur in the Phoenix Open, finishing fifth[4]. On April 1, he became first in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and remained there for 25 weeks, then regained the position and held it for another 35 weeks. He thus qualified for the U.S. Open and the Open Championship of the following year: in the first of the two tournaments he finished twenty-third, then turned professional, simultaneously losing the right to play in the Open.
The Quicken Loans National was his first event as a professional and he finished third. The Canadian Open instead saw him finish second. At the end of the season he obtained a card for the 2017 PGA Tour. Rahm found his first success in the Farmers Insurance Open thanks to an eagle on the final hole[5], managing to enter the major tournaments of the world scene. At the Mexico Championship, an event of the World Golf Championships series, he finished third, two shots behind the winner Dustin Johnson[6], while in the second event, the Dell Technologies Match Play, he lost the final against Johnson himself. He then won the Irish Open and the final tournament of the European Tour season, the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, by six strokes, also taking home the Rookie of the Year award.
